Home Stretch!

Hi all!

Tomorrow morning, 139 Mount Sinai students (medical and graduate) will awake before sunrise and eat breakfast. Then, at approximately 7AM, all 139 of these students will stop eating and drinking and go for 12 hours through their day. At 7PM, these students will participate in a break-fast meal, generously provided by Maharaja Palace and Famous Famiglia and paid for by Mount Sinai's Student Council as well as the Graduate School.

Why do we do this? We do this to raise money for the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (www.mssm.edu/ehhop). We do this because 6 years ago, the Muslim Students Association and EHHOP got together and used the tradition of Ramadan to ask for financial sponsors who would give money in support of the students who willingly fasted to support EHHOP. We do this because we believe in the mission of EHHOP to provide healthcare to those who are uninsured and who have conditions which have debilitating consequences if not well controlled. We do this because we believe that healthcare is a right and not a privilege. We do this because we care.

Our goal this year was to raise $10,000 and 130 student fasters in support of EHHOP. EHHOP's annual budget this year is $40,000, and at the moment, we are just short of our goal of $10,000. Below is the list of fasters who have donated in the past few days since my last post. Thanks so much for your support!

Mr. and Mrs. David Saiger - $40
Dr. Scott Friedman - $250
Dr. Lloyd Mayer - $250
Eric Chiang - $50
Yvette Wang - $20
Dr. Neal M. Kurzrok - $100
Ms. Ella D. Kaszubski - $25
Mubashar Khan - $100
Adam Jacobs - $100

This puts us at $9090 raised for EHHOP! We are $910 short of our goal of $10,000! I know in the last 24 hours of the Fastathon Campaign we can do this! Thanks so much for all of you who have given so much of your time, energy, money, and future-willpower (for the fasters) into supporting the EHHOP Fastathon and EHHOP.

Take care and happy fasting tomorrow!

David
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If you would like to give, please email mr.fastathon@gmail.com for more details or see our post here. If you would like to participate (Sinai students only), sign up here. For a brief history of the Fastathon, check out our post from 2007. Thanks so much!